Stuff and nonsense
Holly AI Voiceover Helper
A great project to experiment amidst the surge of interest in AI. Named after Holly, the AI from Red Dwarf, using AWS Polly, this is a text-to-speech generator with added bells and whistles - timeline sequencing, video syncing, script generation. AWS Polly isn't the...
Mood Tracker
A proof-of-concept mobile app, built with React Native and Expo. This was made to log day-to-day moods and medication effectiveness with the ability to view stats in a time graph for easy comparison.
Inti
So, we had 3,000 master images that need to be cropped for various media. For some, there were 30 different sizes to prepare for. 90,000 images in total. Imagine the time and pain involved trying to accomplish that in Photoshop. You’d need a document with 30...
Trinity
Where to start with this one?..
Expedia on Vulcan V1
A port of the Vulcan platform specifically for Expedia
Visa on Vulcan v1
Yup - we even do display banner sets too! The following example shows creating a new master MPU banner, and a subsequent DMPU that copies all the previous selections over. Once approved and submitted, the banners are packaged-up and the backup.jpg images are created...
Marriott Bonvoy on Vulcan v1
Another demo of the first iteration of the Trinity platform, previously called Vulcan. Here's a short walkthrough of producing a 9x16 static image ready for publishing on social media. [video width="1920" height="1080"...
EE on Vulcan v1
A demo of the first iteration of the Trinity platform, previously called Vulcan. Here's a short walkthrough of producing a broadcast-ready 16x9 video for an EE campaign. Some steps have been shortened and there's a glaring typo in there! [video width="1920"...
Filter Explorer
One challenge of working with Marriott was that each media asset has to have "The Treatment" on it. A combination of a Photo Filter, Colour Overlay and Levels. Rather than having to bake them in, we thought we'd emulate it with CSS filters. Here's a playground I built...
Bananatime
Probably the most irritating part of being a banner animator are those last minute changes that end-up in having to re-do the backup image. Tedious! Why not automate it? Here's an app I built that seeks to the banner endframe, screenshots it, compresses it to under...
Voltarol gym digi 6
A little AfterEffects tinkering here, retouching some stills and separating-out some parallax layers.
Make way for Donny
Go Drumpf! I spent way too much time on this (always nice poking fun at the senile binbag of hate though!) Winning!
Bad Ads!
Love this! As an advertising designer and developer this article caught my eye, important stuff for the future of the industry... ...then the pop-up arrived!
Anodonta cygnea?
Found a load of these, mostly unopened at the edge of and in Verulamium lake. How on earth do they survive in that sludge-pit?
Verulamium Sundown
HTML5 Santa Game
Another Xmas, another browser game, love it. A 'simple' side-scroller, changing scenery over time, nice parallax effects, with all the usual high-scores etc. Once more with a soundtrack that'll do your nut! Click HERE to have a go
Mia Madre
Animated Guardian Film DMPU
Xmas Present Game
The .swf might be a dying format but Flash lives! Once more, I'm buggered if I'm going to try and get this running in pure JS. Flash to Swiffy, a few tweaks (no support for startDrag() as yet) and we have an HTML5 ready game. In fact, this game is up for sale if...
HTML5 Rugby Game
So, the Rugby's finally over but I was sick of it before it began! The brief was to make a 'simple' rugby game to send out before the World Cup. 'Sure' I said, sounds fun... 2 months later it's finished. Have to say I learned a lot about playability and artificial...
Lacoste 007
Ah, the joys of HTML5 banners! Hand-coded Sizmek stuff with a sprinkling of Greensock. View Expandable